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the basis for chomsky's anarchism is that age of consent laws are an unjust hierarchy that places adults above children
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Chomsky paling around with any billionaire on a private jet should immediately put his leftist credentials in question
But also Epstein is the billionaire he chose to hang out with
his credentials were pretty bad before any of this came out. to me these takedowns are not survivable:
Cambodian genocide denial and Khmer Rouge apologia was also very bad, but unfortunately a lot of big leftist figures at the time engaged in it. It was one of those events where a lot of respected left wing figures got it extremely wrong in real time.
This is the consequence of putting political alignments in a one dimensional chart, Malcolm x, Robert Williams, Assata Shakur, John Brown, Platner, Chomsky, AOC, all of them are leftists
So is Joespeh Biden, Tony the tiger Blair and hitlers left toe apparently
The term you're thinking of is moderate neoliberalism.
None of these are in 'The Left' unless you include people who are far right but occasionally do socially liberal things as leftists
I mean more "far left" people like Samir Amin also engaged in Khmer Rouge apologia. It was a pretty big failure by a lot of communists. There are still Maoists to this day that do this.
Are they really
Leftism is such a purposely nebulous term, as long as you have one slightly decent take you are a leftist, if you think that a broken arm shouldn't force you to declare bankruptcy then you are a leftist even if you are pro invasion, same with pro LGBT right but you are a mouth foaming racist, see Bernie Sanders